About the Authors

Alexander R. Mankovich

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Cheng-Yuk Lee

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Volkmar Heinrich

vheinrich@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VH. Performed the experiments: AM CYL. Analyzed the data: AM CYL VH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VH. Wrote the paper: VH AM.